Local Government (Disqualification) Bill Debate
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Eleanor Laing
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Local Government (Disqualification) Bill
Eleanor Laing ExcerptsFriday 14th January 2022
(2 years, 3 months ago)
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Sir Paul Beresford
I will be very succinct. I have mentioned the taxi cab, and I can hear it behind me—
Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)
Order. The hon. Gentleman might like to ask the leave of the House.
Sir Paul Beresford
My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker. After all this time, I should have remembered that. I ask the leave of the House to say a few words.
I thank the Minister for her support, and I am grateful for the support from right across the House. Even my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) is behind the Bill, although he was going to add all sorts of thorns to it—much, I think, to the dismay of local government. My hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Gareth Bacon) and the Minister mentioned MPs. If my hon. Friend had spent some time on the Standards Committee, he would have heard of the ghastly accusation of bringing the House into disrepute. That would apply to any MP in this situation, and the door would be shown to them.
I thank everybody again, and I hope that the Bill will progress swiftly through the other place, led by another ex-leader of Wandsworth Council.
Question put and agreed to.
Bill accordingly read the Third time and passed.